In Dante's famous "Inferno," the Italian poet condemns the legendary Count Ugolino della Gherardesca to gnaw on a skull for eternity. But was the Pisan nobleman really a cannibal? Did he eat his ...

Cannibal Count Ugolino, imprisoned in Pisa’s Clock Tower in the 13th century, was not slowly starved and driven to eat the flesh of his own dead sons, as Dante Alighieri wrote in his famous ...

Pisa, Italy - So gruesome is the accusation against the Count of Donoratico, it makes Hannibal the Cannibal's culinary habits in this year's blood-and-gore feature film look like kid's stuff. Today, ...

Not even the great poet's bloody story about the "cannibal" deeds of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, the Pisan ruler of those lands, kept them away from the Castle of the Gioiosa Guardia ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Leonardo da Vinci isn’t directly represented in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, but the institution just got a lot closer to the influential Italian ...

In this passage, Dante tells of meeting Count Ugolino who tells of his misery and suffering as he and his four sons slowly starved to death. Ugolino says: 'In anguish of despair, I bit my hands.'" ...

A stolen painting by the Spanish master Francisco Goya has been found by police in Montenegro. The oil painting, Count Ugolino, had been lifted from a gallery in Turin, northern Italy, in December ...

Science may rewrite history if bones found under an Italian church prove to be those of "Cannibal Count Ugolino," one of the darkest historical figures to make an appearance in Dante's Inferno.